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WEAR in the -way of collar and hat
study illustration No. 3. The flat,
wide hat and the towering collar fair
ly pull each other to pieces. The col
lar is charming, the hat is smart
but there is no harmony between
them. - .
Now then turn your discriminating
eye to illustration No. 1 the hat
with pointed crown surmounts a
pointed collar the result is a pleas
ing harmony of outline. The sharp
wing like tabs of the organdie collar
in picture No. 2 follow the line of the
sharp backward flare of the hat and
the general effect is smartness.
As to No. 4 you may think the lady
fair absent-mindedly turned her col
lar back to front But she hasn't,
really. She's simply a bit ahead of
the fashion, and her curious collar is
the Sarah Bernhardt ruff now in
vogue in Paris. It is made of black
satin lined with dull blue with nar
row stock of dull blue velvet. Broad
loops of blue ribbon trim the scoop
shape hat and bring hat and collar
into harmony.
SHAKESPEARE TO RIVAL THE MOVIES
William Shakespeare died April 23,
1616 300 years ago. In view of the
world-wide commemoration of his
great life, which will culminate on
that day, The Day Book asked the
two greatest living portrayers of
Shakespearean plays E. H. Sothern
and Julia Marlowe to write on
Shakespeare's future in America.
Their articles are presented today.
BY E. H. SOTHERN
It is a queer coincidence that with
apparently all the women's clubs in
America and all the literati preparing
to celebrate the three hundredth an
niversary of Shakespeare's birth with
great ostentation and pomp, the Eng
lish stage has become almost barren
of his plays.
The only way Shakespeare may be
studied is through the actor. His
plays are not for the scholar or the
closet; they are for man, woman and
child.
Every actor wants to play Shake
speare; it means to him that he has
reached the highest in his art; but
does the actor of today want to play
Shakespearean characters enough to
fail in them?
He will fail at first You cannot
play Shakespeare as you would our
modern dramatists, who think in the
same vein you do.
I can see no future for the great
plays of Shakespeare in America ex
cept in a municipal or specially en
dowed theater, where actors can be
trained to play his comedies and trag
edies. Shakespeare should be ACTED, not
read, IN THE SCHOOLS. Children
will love to act Shakespeare. The
most enthusiastic audiences Miss
Marlowe and I have had were those
who could pay little and those who
were young.
Nowaday the oply plays that will
draw a full gallery are the plays of
Shakespeare. This is why there
should be an endowed theater, where
great plays could be seen for 15 to 50
cents. After a little While a theater
of this kind would "rival the movies
in popularity.
Any municipality that would try
the endowed theater, if it would suc
ceed, must have the best actors,
grounded in the knowledge of the
technique of their art
BY JULIA MARLOWE
In an interview with Idah McGlone
Gibson.
What is the greatest legacy that
Shakespeare has given to time? THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
The English language, you say, is
somewhat older than Shakespeare?
True, many of Its words are older,
but its beauty, its clarity, its dignity.
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